Railway-ticket



(No Model.)

B.- McOOY. RAILWAY TIGKBT.

Patented Feb. 23, 1892.

IZ34SG789 //v VENTOI? ATTORNEYS NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

RICHARD MCCOY, OF ORES'PON, IOlVA.

RAI LWAY-TIC K ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 469,586, dated February 23, 1892.

Application filed May 25, 1891. Serial No. 393,982. (No model.)

on throughout the ticket, each of the perpen- 10 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD MCCOY, of dicular or longitudinal lines or columns run- Creston, in the county of Union and State of ning from 1 to ()that is, in a downward Iowa, have invented a new and useful Imdirection, but in an irregular manner as re- 5 provement in Railway-Tickets, of which the gards the numbers-that is, the number 1 on following is a full, clear, and exact descripthe second cross-line a under number 10- tion. that is, Oon the left hand of the top cross- This invention relates to what are known line, its number 2 opposite 1 to the right hand as mileagetickets on railroads, usually of said top cross-line, the number 2 in the IO carried in books, and from which portions are third cross-line 0 being under number 1 in cut or torn off by the conductor correspondthe second cross-line, and so on throughout ing with the drafts made upon the ticket durthe perpendicular or longitudinal columns ing the successive trips or rides by the owner till the number lO-that is, Ois reached in of the ticket till the whole ticket has been said columns, respectively, when thenumbers 5 86 1 up. from 1 to 10, or O, are repeated in them re- The invention consists in a novel ruled and spectively throughout the whole length of the numbered ticket of this description, substanticket, the number 1 in each succeeding crosstially as hereinafter shown and described, line being underO in theline above it and the whereby the counting or work of the connumber 2 under number 1 in the line imme- 2o ductor is greatly facilitated in determining diately aboveit. This makes the numbers 011 the tearing of the ticket at the proper place the top cross-line to range successively from each trip or passage made by the owner of 1 to 0, or 10, toward the left, the numbers on the ticket, as hereinafter explained. the second cross-line c to read 1 O 9 8 7 6 5 4E Reference is to be had to the accompany- 3 2 from left to right, and the numbers on the :5 ing drawing, which represents a face view of third cross-line to lieadfrom left to right 2 1 a mileage-ticket embodying my invention, 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3, and so on throughout the sevthe ticket, which maybe of any desired length eral series of cross-lines. The numbers in the to take in any specified number of miles as the several perpendicular or longitudinal columns maximum, being here shown as broken away are preferably printed, as denoted by light 0 in direction of its length. and stout lines, in different colorsas, for in- A indicates the strip or ticket, which may stance, the first to the right in red,the second he carried in a book provided with a roller column in black, and so on alternately or sucaud be drawn out from under or over said cessivelyand the number 0, representing 10, S5 roller as it is used for the conductor to tear being made holder or thicker throughout the 35 off the necessary portion of the ticket correticket to facilitate the work of the conductor sponding with the passage or trip made at in tearing 0d the ticket as required and to any one time; but the book itself forms no make the 10 or O, which always comes over a part of this invention. number 1 next below it, more noticeable. The 0 The ticket itself, which is the subject of space (1 to the right of the ticket is marked 40 the invention, is constructed with ten longiwith book over the cross-lines throughout tudinally-ruled lines I) 1), commencing at the the length of the ticket at repeated intervals right hand and running to the left hand, and in the cross-lines to indicate the number of numbered, respectively, from 1 to O on the the book which should be inscribed thereon, top cross line c of the ticket. Each cross-line and is further marked with the word road 5 c, of which there are any number throughout to indicate the particular road the ticket is the length of the ticket, indicatesamile. The designed to be used on, and which may be figure 0 throughout the ticket is used, to designated by the name of the road or initials economize space, to denote 10. The number thereof. Said space cl is also marked with a 2 in the second cross-line is under or opposite sectional division of miles in tons opposite the 50 the number 1 in the top cross-line 1, and successive numbers 0 or 10 throughout the number 2 in the third cross-line is opposite longitudinal column to the right hand, as or under the number 1 in cross-line 2, and so shown by the numbers 10 20 up to 120, and so miles, the conductor would draw the ticket out of the book until the second number 3 on the first longitudinal column Z) to the right was exposed, when he would tear the portion of the ticket off under said number 3 crosswise, thereby showing that thirteen miles of the ticket has been used, and would retain such torn-off portion of the ticket, and here it should be remembered that the numbers from 1 to 10 run consecutively throughout the whole of the perpendicular or longitudinal columns, which makes the second number ,3 in the first or right-hand longitudinal column to be included in such torn-off portion of the ticket. After said thirteen miles have been torn off from the ticket the top of the ticket left in the book will show thesucceeding first or upper number 1 of the ticket to be on the eighth square or space from the right and in the third longitudinal column from the left, from which number the next count is made as the ticket is being used. the owner of the ticket desires to travel seven miles farther, the conductor, counting from the last-named top-line number 1 downward in the same longitudinal column till he reaches number 7 therein, would tear off another crosswise portion of the ticket immediately under said number 7, thereby indicating that twenty miles of the ticke'thas been used up. This is repeated till the whole of the ticket has been used, each succeeding tear leaving an exposed numberl on the remaining top of the ticket within the horizontal row at said top in one or other of the, longitudinal columns to count from again,no matter on which horizontal line 0 the ticket is torn off.

(Join paring this form of mileage-ticket with the ordinary one in use, the difference may be stated as follows: The ordinary ticketis constructed in strips, counting from one thousand to five thousand miles, and is very trying or perplexing tothe conductor. Thus a passenger holding such a mileage-ticket and Thus, supposing desiringto go any considerable distance presents his ticket to the conductor, who first has to examine the number on top of the ticket and then add the distance that the passenger wishes to go to the number on the top of the ticket before tearing off the ticket; but with my improved ticket the conductor would always have on top of the ticket. in one of the ten rows of numbers a number 1 to start from, and running down to 10, which would greatly facilitate the counting of the number of miles the passenger wished to go, and the conductor would tear offthe ticket accordingly, each longitudinal column throughout its length repeating the count, from 1 .to 10, that .makes the addition very easy, and the graduatednumber of miles in the longitudinal space (1 further assisting the count, I g V. r

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I I v A mileage railroad-ticket having inscribed on its face ten longitudinal lines or columns to one side ofa marginal space or column, having a mileage-graduation it, and,f urther, having inscribed on itsface a successive series of cross lines or spaces intersecting the longitudinal columns and each of which indicates a mile, said longitudinal columns havingnumbers rangingrepeatedly from 1 to 10 down oralongthem Within thecross lines or spaces and having said numbers throughout the several columns arranged substantially as described, with each number 1 immediately beneath a 10- symbol and the several numbers 1 in each successive column being each in a cross line or space next beneath the. cross line or space having'the number 1 of the next adjacent column in it throughout the whole seriesof longitudinal columns, so thaton tearing the ticket on any of its crosselines a nu mber l will be left on top of the ticket in some one of the longitudinal columns to count from, essentially as set forth.

I RICHARD MCCOY. itnesses:

GEO. W. CARNES,

FLORENCE Emma 

